CHAPTER 81: CHAPTER 81: POVERTY

Returning to the spaceship, Lor did not go to the second floor, but came to Levan’s cabin door. He was about to knock when he found it was opened by young Levan.

"Mentor." Levan looked at Lor, face full of excitement, and said, "You were amazing, so many Third Ring Wizards were eliminated early because they ran out of scrolls, yet you stood until the end."

During the previous defense battle, he had watched almost the entire time through a panoramic mode from start to finish.

For the past two days, he hadn’t slept or even worked on the rune comprehension course.

Besides wanting to see his mentor show great prowess, he was actually a bit worried about the mentor’s safety.

In case something went wrong, he could call his grandfather to save the situation.

"Not too bad," Lor smiled and asked, "How is your course progressing? How long until you break through to the Second Ring?"

He originally planned that once Levan broke through to the Second Ring, he would let him go to the sea for some training to accumulate more practical experience.

Now this plan could actually unfold. With eighty to ninety percent of sea fish and sea beasts exterminated, replacing the training target with the White Bird Group would be just as good.

"About another year," Levan scratched his head sheepishly. "At most one year, I will definitely be able to thoroughly understand all the runes and break through to the Second Ring."

Originally, both he and his mentor were Third Level Apprentices; his mentor took the witchcraft fusion route, which was more difficult than his single-element heritage route.

As a result, his mentor had already reached the Second Ring, and was progressing in witchcraft fusion without falling behind, while he was still stuck at the First Ring.

It was indeed a bit embarrassing when compared.

"Let it be two years; having a solid foundation is more important than anything,"

Lor seriously admonished, "Before breaking through to the Second Ring, you must inform Speaker Yassen. If he thinks your understanding of runes is not thorough enough, then don’t breakthrough yet."

For the cultivation of a heritage wizard, understanding runes is the most important.

He didn’t want to see his student rush for a breakthrough, resulting in an unstable foundation and eventually being unable to break through the Fourth Ring.

As for practical training, it should be prioritized after establishing a good foundation; if necessary, he could protect him more in the future.

"Yes, Mentor." Levan nodded earnestly.

"Alright, study hard, I’m heading up now."

Lor waved his hand dismissively at his student, ascended to the second floor of the flying ship, returned to his cabin, and lay heavily on the bed, quickly falling asleep.

For the past two days, he had been almost constantly pushing his spiritual power to its limits to restore elemental energy and cast witchcraft, still having to play mind games with those wizards. Competing on who would be the first to release a Fourth Ring witchcraft scroll was truly exhausting.

If he didn’t rest well, his spiritual power might collapse on its own.

Two days later, in the afternoon.

Lor opened his eyes, feeling his mind clear and refreshed, he breathed a long sigh of relief, thankfully there were no lingering after-effects this time.

Immediately afterward, he began planning his subsequent arrangements.

"Now it is already Wizard Calendar Year 6," Lor mused, "There are four years left until the Faith Wizard uprising...no, because of my arrival, there might be some changes; in the worst case, the uprising will occur two and a half years later."

The reason he didn’t advance the timeline was that before the uprising, the Faith Wizards would carry out two major acts.

One major act was to declare independence, making the Faith Wizards a new faction.

The second was to build a new Divine Hall of Faith, being the final struggle of the Faith Wizards.

The second act would last at least two years, and after completing the Divine Hall of Faith, they would find it could no longer advance further, then completely give up, and then...

"Nowadays I can increase spiritual power by 200 points a year without raising suspicion, but it’s still too slow."

Lor frowned slightly, "To increase it faster, I would have to openly buy divine power crystals to enhance it."

"But those are too expensive; over sixty million contribution points could only buy over sixty thousand grams, which at most could enhance my spiritual power by over 4500 points."

After becoming a Second Ring Wizard, although Lor’s spiritual power quality had improved, the effect of using divine power crystals is not much different compared to his apprentice period.

The energy essence in divine power crystals is above the Fourth Tier, the enhancement for those below the Fourth Tier is not much reduced.

But even if he exchanged all contribution points for divine power crystals, he would still be about 4500 points of spiritual power short of becoming a Third Ring, which is necessary for the Meteor Technique to undergo qualitative change.

Moreover, he couldn’t convert all his contribution points into divine power crystals; Fourth Ring scrolls, witchcraft experiments, purchasing basic witchcraft structures, exchanging for any reserves all needed to be used.

"It’s really troublesome, the contribution points are still too few." Lor looked at the 65.5 million contribution points stored on his identification card and once again felt deeply the taste of poverty.

In any case, it seems impossible for him to possess Fourth Ring combat power before the Faith Wizards go mad and the Abyss invades.

"Forget it, take it slowly."

Lor took a deep breath, forcibly suppressing his restlessness, "This sea beast riot, the only Fourth Ring Faith Wizard in Betula Continent seemed to have not come..."

"Indeed, Faith Wizards don’t need apprentice slots, hence don’t need to take assignments to acquire more territory, coming or not doesn’t matter."

While thinking this, Lor operated the spaceship to head towards Betula Continent.

Now the Endless Sea was probably quite chaotic, it would be better for him to go back and take the first-class laboratory promised to him by Legislator Cooper.

...

Murphy Continent, outside the Dark Grand Canyon.

Eighteen wizards with various divine powers swirling around them gathered here, each with a different demeanor and atmosphere.

"Hisham, what did you call us here for at this moment?"

A young girl exuding a rich life aura looked at the figure shrouded in darkness ahead and asked, "Is there anything that can’t be said via the Communication Board?"

"Hehehe, since everyone is basically here, I’ll just say it." Hisham laughed, "I am about to break through the Fifth Ring and plan to apply for independence from the Bloodline Wizard Faction."

He believed that the Faith Wizards and Bloodline Wizards were entirely two different systems, and there was no need to mix them together.

It would be better to be independent and gain more autonomy.

He did not explain why this matter couldn’t be discussed via the Communication Board, but the wizards present understood. After all, the Communication Board was an invention of the Elemental Mages.

And compared to the Communication Board, the wizards were more concerned about another matter.

"What, you are about to break through?"

"So soon?"

"Why can’t I progress any further after converting to a Faith Wizard?"

...

Fifteen Faith Wizards were shocked by this news, repeatedly asking questions.

Two other Faith Wizards were only momentarily surprised, quickly regaining their composure.

"Don’t worry, I’ll tell you how to break through once I reach the Sixth Ring." Hisham glanced at the crowd and said, "For now, let’s discuss the independence issue; who supports it, who opposes it?"

"I agree."

"Alright."

"I’m with you."

...

The Faith Wizards, filled with excitement, understanding from Hisham’s words that breaking through to the Fifth Ring was not only easy, but even the Sixth Ring was not difficult for Faith Wizards.

Their transition from the Bloodline Wizard System to the Faith Wizard System had indeed been the correct choice.

Seeing everyone agreeing, the two Faith Wizards with composed expressions also did not oppose.

Independence had no downside for them, so it was naturally a casual matter.